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AIIM Community

Congratulations to the AIIM 2010 Awards Winners

The AIIM Awards Ceremony takes place every year, and it's our opportunity as an association to honor and recognize special members of our community for their contributions to AIIM and our industry. This year, the formal affair took place in Philadelphia on Tuesday, April 20th. A wonderful time was had by all. If you weren't able to attend or you would like to relive the evening, here are all of the pictures from the event.

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Change Management  |  Social Media

8 Ways to Garner Adoption for Social Computing in Your Company

A few weeks ago, I wrote an article on the essentials for social computing and collaboration for business. The first of those essentials was a recommendation to have a maniacal focus on garnering adoption. As I speak with customers around the world, I find that an increasing number of companies are struggling with the mechanics of how to accelerate the adoption of the social computing capabilities they’ve made available to the enterprise. Worse yet, many are apprehensive about moving forward with some of the truly transformative ways to use social computing because they fear that their organizations are more conservative than most, and their users are probably not going to be up for using these cutting-edge ways of interacting and collaborating.

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14 Steps to a Successful ECM Implementation

Making an ECM implementation successful requires planning and attention to detail. The best way to create the right solution is to identify organizational goals and priorities. Learn how to manage a successful implementation in our free guide.

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Metadata  |  Sharepoint and Office 365  |  Taxonomy

8 Things You Need to Know about Taxonomy, Metadata, and Information Architecture in SharePoint 2010

Organizations use SharePoint for a variety of purposes, from intranets, extranets, and customer portals to document management and team collaboration. There’s been significant excitement about new product functionality introduced as part of the SharePoint 2010 platform for taxonomy implementation and management across sites and site collections. However, to get to a point where information assets are fully exploited and working to meet the needs of the organization, time and effort must be spent building an appropriate foundation for the information ecosystem – through design, development, and application of foundational information architectures and enterprise taxonomy. A well planned and intelligently constructed foundation is the basis for successful information applications and high-quality user experiences.

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Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

8 Signs of a Lackluster ECM Implementation

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Cloud  |  Collaboration  |  Mobile

8 Ways Mobile Computing Can Make You More Collaborative and Connected

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Capture and Imaging  |  Sharepoint and Office 365

8 Key Things to Consider When It Comes to Getting Paper into SharePoint

Microsoft SharePoint is sweeping through organizations, serving as a powerful catalyst for the benefits of enterprise content management (ECM), which include not just managing content, but also collaboration and process automation. In some cases, it has pushed companies to seriously consider leveraging SharePoint as the first step towards ECM. For other companies, it has been more about how SharePoint needs to coexist with current systems. While SharePoint has brought ECM to the masses in a simple and easy-to-deploy way, one question that looms large is: How do I get my paper into SharePoint so that I can transform it from a liability into an immediate business advantage? To answer that question requires careful consideration of the eight key points outlined here.

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